Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Video to Enhance Advance Care Planning in Advanced Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients



Status:Completed
Conditions:Cancer, Cancer
Therapuetic Areas:Oncology
Healthy:No
Age Range:18 - Any
Updated:4/21/2016
Start Date:April 2010
End Date:July 2015

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The Use of a CPR Video to Enhance Advance Care Planning in Advanced Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Tria

Advance care planning involves thinking about choices if the patient becomes sick, and is
important for everyone. It does not matter if the patients are ill or healthy. It is
especially important for people who have diseases that cannot be cured. It allows people to
make sure their wishes are respected if they become very sick or are dying. Thinking about
these issues can be upsetting. But, for many people, it is helpful. This type of discussion
can help the family learn what the patient may want but cannot tell them when these
decisions need to be made


Inclusion Criteria:

- Primary pancreatic or hepatobiliary cancer (including ampullary carcinoma)as well as
gastric and/or esophageal cancers, excluding neuroendocrine histology

- Progressive disease: Locally advanced or metastatic disease with progression on at
least one course of treatment (surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy), or untreated
patients unfit for therapy because of comorbidities or ECOG performance status >2,
and finally, patients with ECOG performance status 2 -- patients must have discussed
on at least one occasion with the treating investigator oncologist that their cancer
cannot be cured

- In the estimation of the treating physician investigator, life expectancy ≤ 1 year

- Known to a GI medical oncology MSKCC clinic: Patients who have already established a
relationship with a GI medical oncologist (who is an investigator on this protocol)
after at least one new visit in the clinic (or as an in-patient), have MSKCC
pathologist confirmed cancer of an above histology, and express an initial intent to
be followed primarily at MSKCC

- English speaking*

- Able to provide informed consent

- Age greater than or equal to 18 years

- Do not have an advance directive or living will * English is the validated language
in one of the study tools, and the language in which information is communicated in
the narrative and video.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire (SPMSQ) score of less than "intact mental
functioning" (3 or more errors). SPMSQ in appendix.

- Any patient psychological state deemed by the treating physician to pose any risk of
psychological harm by issues raised in a discussion of the trial, or in its testing
procedures. Any subject who may become upset during any aspect or discussion of the
study will be offered counseling services.
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